1 Mercury Boys’ Choir Micro is a compact starter edition of our acclaimed Mercury Symphonic Boys’ Choir library. This slice of a traditional English boy’s choral ensemble library includes piano and forte versions of the sustaining and staccato articulations of two important vowels: “Ah” and “Oo.” It also includes two sustaining, tempo-sync-able word articulations from Christian liturgy, “Kyrie” and “Eleison.” The new version 2.0 of Mercury Boys’ Choir Micro has been redesigned for ease-of-use. Articulations are no longer split up into different presets; every one can be accessed in every nki preset. This allows for more convenient songwriting and ex- perimentation, as well as standardizing presets. Furthermore, improvements have been made in the simulated legato system and tempo-sync options for the word articulations.
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Mercury Boys’ Choir Micro is a compact starter edition of our acclaimed Mercury Symphonic Boys’ Choir library.
This slice of a traditional English boy’s choral ensemble library includes piano and forte versions of the sustaining and staccato
articulations of two important vowels: “Ah” and “Oo.” It also includes two sustaining, tempo-sync-able word articulations
from Christian liturgy, “Kyrie” and “Eleison.”
The new version 2.0 of Mercury Boys’ Choir Micro has been redesigned for ease-of-use. Articulations are no longer split up
into different presets; every one can be accessed in every nki preset. This allows for more convenient songwriting and ex-
perimentation, as well as standardizing presets. Furthermore, improvements have been made in the simulated legato system
and tempo-sync options for the word articulations.
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Mercury captures the youth and purity of a full boy’s choral ensemble consisting of 25 singers ages 8 to 13. We recorded
Mercury in the same large hall that our Olympus Symphonic Choir, Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble and many other
Soundiron libraries were captured. The hall gives it a bright and open sound with just the right touch of transparent natural
reverberation.
Our custom scripted Kontakt user interface gives you flexible control features, like attack, release, transient start offset, dy-
namic swelling, stereo panorama, and dynamic layer blending. There’s also an EQ, simulated Vibrato control, and a reverb
panel with dozens of life-like spaces and creative FX convolution impulse responses.
This library comes equipped with 4 standard instrument presets, each focusing on a category of choral articulations. Also
included are 30 special FX presets that demonstrate the creative possibilities of this compact yet powerful library. These FX
presets are exclusive to Mercury Micro and each offers a unique sonic flavor all its own.
In the full Mercury Symphonic Boy’s Choir, you’ll also find 2 mixable microphone positions, true legato, an expanded vowel selection, 42 words with both sustaining and staccato varieties, choral effects and more. Mercury Micro owners can upgrade
to the full Mercury Symphonic Boy’s Choir at a discounted price any time they like, making this a great introduction to the
world of Mercury.
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SOUNDIRON
An angelic starter edition of our Mercury Symphonic Boys’ Choir
39 Kontakt Player .nki instruments
Master Sustain, Staccato and Latin Polysustain children’s choir presets
Custom Sound-Designed FX and Ambient presets
209 Samples
320 MB Installed
24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo PCM Wav Format
Flexible and intuitive user interface controls
Convolution reverb with a variety of different room, hall and special effect acoustic environments.
Note: Native Instruments Kontakt Player or Kontakt (full version) required, version 5.6.8 or later.
Windows 7 (or later) or OSX 10.9 (or later) is required. Komplete Kontrol required for NKS features. S-Series
Keyboard required for Light-Guide features.
INTRODUCTION - Pages 1 - 2
OVERVIEW - Page 3
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS & INSTALLATION - Pages 4 – 5
GUI CONTROLS - Page 6 - 8
FX RACK - Pages 9 - 13
LICENSE AGREEMENT - Page 14
CREDITS - Page 15
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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System Requirements
This library requires Native Instruments Kontakt Player version 5.6.8 or later, or the full retail
version of Kontakt version 5.6.8 or later. The sample files are compressed to lossless 48kHz and 24
bit NCW audio format. Please read all instrument specs and software requirements before purchasing
this or any other Soundiron products. You must have at least Windows version 7 or later, or
Apple OSX 10.10 or later.
Many instrument presets in this library are extremely system resource intensive. We highly recommend
that you have at least 3GB of system ram, a multi-core cpu and an 7200 rpm SATA or SSD hard disk
before purchasing this particular Soundiron library. Large sample sets like those found in this library may
load slowly and may cause system instability on older machines.
Kontakt Preset Loading
Once installation is complete, you can browse and load the included .nki presets using the Libraries
window, Files Browser or Quick Load Window in Kontakt. You can load Kontakt as a virtual
instrument plugin inside your host sequencer or as a stand-alone application.
Control Parameter Automation
Most knobs, buttons and sliders in this library can be automated by midi continuous controller or by
using host automation envelopes in your DAW. To assign any interactive control knob, button or the
Sound Selection Menu to a midi CC, you can right-click the control (command-click on OSX) and select
the “Learn MIDI CC# Automation” button that appears. Then move your desired midi hardware
control to link it.
To assign the control to a host automation ID, use the “Auto” automation routing window in the left
side Kontakt browser area to drag-drop an automation routing number onto the control you wish to
lock it to.
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Library Activation
1. If you don't already have Kontakt 5 or the Kontakt Player installed, download the Free Kontakt Player
(WIN / OSX) from the Native Instruments website. You need Kontakt or Kontakt Player version 5.6.8